jennpelly:

Last night I went to the SPIN magazine holiday party at the W Hotel in Union Square. It was swanky. It reminded me that I have been meaning to post a zine I made a few years ago about the history of SPIN. I know that cut-and-paste zines lose some of their cool factor when they are made digital, but, oh well. I wrote this paper about the history of SPIN when I was a sophomore in college. It wasn’t an exceptional paper, but I got an A, and I am pretty sure it was the reason the magazine agreed to hire me as an intern in 2009. It was a lot of fun to write and make. I did this paper before SPIN’s archives were available online, so sifting through back issues I’d never seen at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the one at Lincoln Center, felt like discovering sunken treasure. I was living across the street from that library at the time, so I got really into it.

11:48 pm  •  18 December 2011  •  14 notes